Bowles v. Beal
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. Trespass to try title brought in the district court of Navarro county by the appellant against the appellees, John P. Whatley and W. O. McClurg, and P. M. Beal. Pending the suit Beal died, -and his administratrix, Mrs. W. Beal, was made party defendant. The suit was for the recovery of about nine hundred acres of land in Navarro county, on the Elijah Powers league.
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Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. L. D. Bradley. Trespass to try title brought in the district court of Navarro county by the appellant against the appellees, John P. Whatley and W. O. McClurg, and P. M. Beal. Pending the suit Beal died, -and his administratrix, Mrs. W. Beal, was made party defendant. The suit was for the recovery of about nine hundred acres of land in Navarro county, on the Elijah Powers league. Verdict and judgment for the appellant for a one-half undivided interest in the land sued for. The plaintiff and one Jeffries purchased the land sued for at execution…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
The bill of exceptions shows that there were but two objections raised to the introduction in evidence of the *324deed of Bitter, assignee of Jeffries, to Bower, Peak and Nichols, for a portion of the land sued for. These related to the supposed want of certainty in the terms used in the deed, in describing the land intended to be conveyed, and to the fact disclosed on the face of the deed, that the sale was made in Dallas county by the assignee.
We do not regard either objection as tenable.
The deed of the assignee under consideration described the land sold and conveyed…
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